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  • life Work

    Q4: RESTORE

    BIG NEWS: Josh can drive again! After 6 weeks of complete non-weight-bearing he has been cleared to start with 25% body weight and progressively increase each week by 25% over the next 4. Since…

    August 8, 2026
  • life Work

    Gentle is a Theme Here

    Definitely having a busy call week over here, but I’ve also been trying to be very . . . gentle with myself, and I have to say overall it has gone well. I have…

    June 24, 2026
  • life Weekend Work

    Time Tracking Report #3: Friday

    Friday = Clinical Work Day at the ‘other’ office. I just started working at one of our satellite locations this year and I love it. It’s quieter, the offices are so much bigger, and…

    April 11, 2026
  • life Work

    Time Tracking Report Part 2

    Didn’t mean to leave anyone with a cliffhanger (I got at least one text demanding to know what was so stressful about Wednesday). But if anyone WAS waiting for my time tracking update to…

    January 16, 2026
  • Goals Work

    2026 Goals Series: Work

    Prior installments of the 2026 Goals Series: WORK for me encompasses both parts of my career: medicine (primarily clinical practice — I don’t have any formal leadership roles anymore, though I still get to…

    January 15, 2026
  • life Work

    5 on Call Day 5 (also Friday)

    1- I really liked Oliver Burkeman’s newsletter today, in which he talked about life as a string of beads and related this idea to how current events are impacting all of our lives right…

    September 19, 2025
  • Work

    Call Day Dispatch #4: They’re Just Notes

    I think I saw a record breaking number of inpatients today! (Thankfully just a few outpatients. Though some were complicated.) I am now faced with a pile of documentation which feels a little bit…

    September 18, 2025
  • life Work

    Balms (on Call Week Day #3)

    (I cannot tell you what I think because my order sadly hasn’t even shipped yet! I ordered the gel pens and I think somehow that slowed it down.) Oh, and I never ended up…

    September 17, 2025
  • life Work

    Toggl Notes + Call Dispatch, Day 2

    Toggl Notes so far: 1- I spend A LOT OF TIME IN THE CAR. Like, yesterday it was 1.5 hours (not bad) but today will be 2.5 hours (~85 minutes AM, 65 minutes PM).…

    September 16, 2025